Curiosity Beyond the Light: Exploring the Unknown with AI

AI can shine a light on knowledge, but its real value depends on how we use it. It expands our view and fills in gaps, but it does not question what is missing. If we just accept AI’s answers, we might mistake convenience for truth.

Instead of relying on AI to tell us what we want to hear, we should use it to challenge, explore, and discover what’s hidden.

So, here is the thought:
What is the biggest blind spot you might be missing?

1. Curiosity Beyond
the Light:
Exploring the
Unknown with AI
Inspired by Jonathan Briggs’s ‘Eight Better Ways to Work with LLMs’ (2025).

2. Curiosity Beyond
the Light:
Exploring the
Unknown with AI
Inspired by Jonathan Briggs’s ‘Eight Better Ways to Work with LLMs’ (2025).
Using AI as a tool

3. Alone, we see only what our
own light reveals.
What we know is limited to
what we choose to explore.
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4. AI stretches your vision,
fills in the gaps.
But don’t mistake
coverage for clarity.
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5. To go beyond the obvious,
we must push AI to
challenge, contradict, and
reveal what’s missing.
However, it gives us what’s
most likely, not what’s
most insightful.
Bigger and better AI
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6. Two perspectives sharpen the
picture. Challenge assumptions.
Compare contradictions.
Find what neither
of you saw alone.
New link
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7. AI helps light up the known.
But its real value isn’t in confirming what we see —
it’s in stepping into the unknown and
questioning the unseen.
The unknown
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8. AI fills in gaps, but it doesn’t
question them.
What’s the biggest blind spot
you might be missing?
?
(cc) Refruit , 2025 . Illustration from https://merry.company